Tag: star WDJ0914+1914

This illustration shows the white dwarf WDJ0914+1914 and its Neptune-like exoplanet. Since the icy giant orbits the hot white dwarf at close range, the extreme ultraviolet radiation from the star strips away the planet’s atmosphere. While most of this stripped gas escapes, some of it swirls into a disc, itself accreting onto the white dwarf. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser

First Giant Planet Around White Dwarf – Discovered

MessageToEagle.com | December 5, 2019

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope for the first time, found evidence of a giant planet associated with a white dwarf star. The

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